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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670896
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Institutions and economic performance : what can be explained?
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko - 2010
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153586
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Do environmental regulations effect FDI decisions? : the pollution haven hypothesis revisited
Yoon, Haeyeon; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
on foreign direct investment (FDI). We use Korean outward FDI data covering the manufacturing sector for 2009-15. The … in the non-production part using location information about the host country. The main results of the estimation of a FDI … model show that the stricter the regulations in host countries in Asia the lower the FDI both intensively and extensively to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704340
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Firms' global engagement and management practices
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017
We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany, we calculate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636585
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Heterogeneous immigrants and foreign direct investment : the role of language skills
Lücke, Matthias; Heidland, Tobias - 2015
We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347125
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Minimum global tax : winners and losers in the race for mergers and acquisitions
Amendolagine, Vito; Bruno, Randolph; Cipollina, Maria; … - 2023
This study aims to quantify the impact of the global minimum corporate tax rate - a pillar of the OECD's reform of international taxation - on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving large multinational enterprises (MNEs). First, the influence of differences in capital taxation on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279899
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
. Using foreign direct investment (FDI) as a measure for capital flows, we present empirical evidence which largely confirms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003291728
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Does openness to international financial flows contribute to productivity growth?
Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2008
less clear, but this masks an important and novel result. We find strong evidence that FDI and portfolio equity liabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003747653
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Want freedom, will travel : emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2015
We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317631
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Foreign ownership and intra-firm union density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762256